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State Republican chair calls for cuts to tourism funding

May 21, 2007 – 11:15 am

In a post this evening on MichiganLiberal.com, Michigan Republican Party chairman Saul Anuzis called for cuts to Michigan’s tourism spending. In listing a series of four cuts to Michigan spending, cutting tourism spending was the number one priority for the state’s top Republican.
Here are the facts:
* Last year Michigan spent just $5.7 million on tourism [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Economy, Issues, Tourism | Comments (0)

As rural America struggles, federal Rural Development funds go to wealthy suburbs and metro centers

April 7, 2007 – 11:44 am

The Washington Post had a story yesterday on the fact that a large percentage of the USDA Rural Development funds have been sent instead to America’s metropolitan areas. As the Post points out, “more than three times as much money went to metropolitan areas with populations of 50,000 or more ($30.3 billion) as to poor [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Economy, Investment, Issues | Comments (0)

The Cost of Delay

October 18, 2006 – 1:56 pm

This morning the campaign released a report on Michigan recycling entitled “The Cost of Delay: The Local Price of Obstruction on Michigan Recycling Funding.” I went up to the former site of the Northport Recycling Center, which the county closed last month due to lack of funding, to highlight the fact that we’ve lost out [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Issues, Natural Resources | Comments (0)

Fairness needed in school funding

June 8, 2006 – 11:27 am

In 1973, in a signing ceremony to reduce the inequalities how Michigan schools were funded, then-Governor William G. Milliken remarked that “It is wrong that the wealth of a school district should affect … the quality of education a child receives.” Thirty-three years later, too many of our rural school districts still face blatant geographic [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Education, Issues | Comments (0)

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